Superconformal Field Theories in 6 and Lower Dimensions January 15-19, 2018

2018-01-15 ~ 2018-01-19
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Synopsis and Organizers

Conformal field theories represent a very active research field worldwide with many international experts working on various aspects of the topic. Progress during the past several years has led to many new interdisciplinary connections to mathematics and in particular geometry as sell as to deep and profound questions of fundamental physics. Superconformal field theories (SCFT’s) arise once one adds supersymmetry on top of conformal symmetry. This addition leads to a new class of very rich but highly non-trivial and constrained quantum field theories which play a prominent role in string theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence. SCFT’s appear in spacetime dimensions 2 to 6 with various inter-dimensional connections between them.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together international experts from both physics and mathematics working on SCFT’s in various dimensions. Above all, we would like to provide an atmosphere for interactions, discus- sions and collaborations on new developments in the field.

Organizers

Name

University

Michele Del Zotto

Stony Brook University, USA

Babak Haghighat

Tsinghua University, China

Mauricio Romo

IAS, Princeton University, USA

Rak-Kyeong Seong

Tsinghua University, China

Wenbin Yan

Tsinghua University, China

Shing-Tung Yau

Tsinghua University, China

Participants

NO.

English Name

Chinese Name

Employer's Name in English

Employer's Name in Chinese

1

Babak Haghighat

Tsinghua University, China

清华大学

2

Rak-Kyeong Seong

Tsinghua University, China

清华大学

3

Wenbin Yan

颜文斌

Tsinghua University, China

清华大学

4

Mauricio Romo

IAS, Princeton University, USA

美国普林斯顿大学

5

Michele Del Zotto

SCGP Stony Brook University, USA

美国纽约州立大学石溪分校

6

Benjamin Assel

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

欧洲粒子物理研究所

7

Francesco Benini

SISSA, Italy

意大利国际高等研究院

8

Sergio Benvenuti

SISSA, Italy

意大利国际高等研究院

9

Marco Bertolini

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), Japan